Consultants to Design and Conduct Gender Responsive CCA/DRR Training for Government and Civil Society Organization in Maluku
I. Introduction
Adaptasi
Perubahan Iklim dan Ketangguhan (APIK) is a five-year project by United
States Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve the
ability of Indonesians to manage climate and disaster risks. APIK works
to strengthen the capacity of Government of Indonesia to integrate
climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction at national,
provincial, and local levels. Using a landscape approach, APIK works
directly with communities and private sector to proactively manage
risks, and improve capacity of stakeholders to access, understand and
communicate climate information.
In
APIK’s project implementation, gender mainstreaming is APIK’s strategy
to ensure women and men get benefit of the project. For the purpose of
gender mainstreaming, APIK has conducted gender assessment as way to map
out gender situation in general in the context of Climate Change
Adaptation/Disaster Risk Reduction (CCA/DRR). Below is the assessment
results:
- In Maluku and Southeast Sulawesi, work in fishing and seaweed cultivation is seen as a man’s livelihood, while women are perceived commonly in selling these marine goods at the market. The local government in Southeast Sulawesi for instance provides insurance for those involved in fish and aquaculture harvesting, but due to gender roles, only men are eligible to receive this important social safety net.
- East Java’s land and the economy, the primary economic assets in the traditional economy of East Java are livestock and land. As both assets are considered to be owned by men, local women have difficulty accessing lines of credit to back their economic activities given they have no legal collateral to put up at a bank.
Also,
in each APIK area, community decision structures generally do not
require the inclusion of women’s voices in local affairs. When men set
local development priorities, investments that could benefit women –
like local access to clean water – are often given a lower priority in
favor of male preferences, such as investment in roads or fish
processing facilities. Meanwhile, at the government level, gender
mainstreaming program is mostly understood as woman-focused program only
such as strengthening/increasing woman capacity in economic.
Based
on the situation, it is important for government and civil society
organization to have knowledge and skill in developing gender responsive
CCA/DRR program so that the resilience of women and men toward climate
change and disaster risk will increase and strengthen.
II. Background
Referring
to APIK’s gender assessment, below are the woman situations in the
three APIK’s region related to climate change and disaster risk:
1. Women
tend to find obstacles in accessing public forums as way to interfere
public policy. Woman’s double burden—could also be considered as ‘time
poverty’ is the main reason. This ‘time poverty’ in later has caused
women have less influence in public decision making. Thus, it is
commonly known that in Musrenbang (public development planning), the
planning result is mostly gender-neutral. Woman specific issue such as
female reproductive health (which is mostly influenced by the
availability of sustainable clean water) or strengthening woman’s
economic empowerment in the sector which is perceived as man’s sector
such as in fishery, or common societal issue which is perceived as
woman’s responsibility such as children’s health or food security are
frequently not included in the plan;
2. Woman
productive role as land cultivators and fisher(person) are still
undocumented statistically; hence, it is typical that woman then loses
access to increase her livelihood in the sectors such as she would lose
access to finance sector provided both by government or private sector.
Also, woman tends to lose control over resources. Decision making both
at domestic and public level is still perceived as man’s domain.
3. At
the government level, gender mainstreaming in terms of planning and
budgeting regarding CCA/DRR has not yet well known. The module published
by Indonesian Ministry of Woman Empowerment and Child Protection in
2015 has also not yet well known by Dinas Pemberdayaan Perempuan, a
government institution whose main responsible is mainstreaming gender
within government institution.
In
the context of climate change and disaster risk, the obstacles
potentially increase woman’s vulnerability, particularly due to their
limited mobility and the fact that woman’s livelihood is uncounted
statistically. Referring to the situation, it is important for
government organizations—particularly those which are mapped out in
Vulnerability Assessment (VA) as the sectors with high level of
vulnerability, and government institution whose main responsibility is
mainstreaming gender, as well civil society organizations to have
knowledge and skill in developing CCA/DRR program and budget that is
gender responsive.
III. Objective
The
objective to hire consultants to design and conduct Gender Responsive
CCA/DRR Training for Government and Civil Society Organization is to
build capacity of related stakeholders (working in the field that is
mapped out in VA as the sector with high level of vulnerability) in
developing CCA/DRR program/budget that is gender responsive.
IV. Expected Output
1. Capacity
of related stakeholders (working on the sectors mapped out with high
level of vulnerability) to develop CCA/DRR program and budget that is
gender responsive is built;
2. Gender Budget Statement (GBS) (developed by the sectors mapped out with high level of vulnerability) is available.
V. Implementation
The
activity will be conducted on first week of August in Ambon, Maluku.
Participants expected to involve are from bagian teknis and perencana of
government organization in Maluku working on fields mapped out as
vulnerable, working on gender mainstreaming, working on disaster risk
reduction, and working on climate and weather information, as followed:
- Dinas Perikanan;
- Dinas Pertanian;
- Dinas Pekerjaan Umum;
- Dinas Pariwisata
- Sumber Daya Air;
- Dinas Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Perlindungan Anak;
- Badan Penanggulangan Bencana Daerah;
- Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika;
APIK’s
non-governmental organization partners and APIK’s team
member—particularly field coordinators and governance specialist are
also expected to join the training.
The
whole activity (from preparation to reporting) will be conducted by two
persons, i.e. Lead Consultant (1 person) who will lead all the
consultancy process and Co-Consultant (1 person) who will assist lead
consultant in all consultancy process.
Both consultants will perform the activities as followed:
1) Preparing
module for the training by referring to technical guideline published
by Indonesian Ministry of Woman Empowerment & Child Protection;
2) Conduct the training, including preparing and recapping pre and posttest;
3) Finalizing GBS for each area (provincial level, kota level, and kabupaten level);
4) Developing final report, including providing recommendation for further required actions.
By considering the above requirements, it is expected that consultants have these following qualifications:
1) Proven skill on gender budgeting in the context of CCA/DRR;
2) Proven skill to develop GBS in the context of CCA/DRR;
3) Proven skill on gender budgeting advocacy.
VI. Base of Operations and Reporting
The consultants will be based in APIK Jakarta, and will report to Gender Specialist
VII. Application Send
Interested applicants are invited to send their CV to APIK_Recruitment@dai.com. Please send applications no later than 11 June 2017. Applicants are instructed to write “Gender Consultant – NAME” as
the Subject line of their email. We regret that we are unable to
acknowledge receipt of all applications and only shortlisted candidates
will be notified.
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